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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [34] (43/432)
The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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34
EIVEK ROUTES
Right Bank
Ba'rureh. reach above island.
Tuthah I.
Barawish. I. Cultivated by Sawakineh. Small island
on S. side.
Beled village lies some miles S. of this point.
Upper end of Darawlsh I. Several water-lifts. Cultivators
are Sawakineh.
Barqeh. I. (possibly not surrounded by water except in
the h.w. season).
Breadth of the river 300-250 yds.
Upper end of old bed of Tigris?
Tel Tabbarat.
Upper end of Barqeh I.
Camp of Mujammeh Arabs. Sidd Nimrud, remains of an
ancient rampart or dyke, with trench, running SSW. from
the river bank, which has been identified with one end of the
Median Wall, a fortification which in the fourth century b.c.
stretched from the Euphrates to the Tigris in this neighbour
hood. Possibly, however, the Sidd Nimrud was merely an
irrigation dam.
About | ni. above Sidd Nimrud and El-Hawiyeh is a ferry
by which communication is possible between the Baghdad—
Samarra routes on the r. and 1. bank respectively. The
normal service here is reported as being one of three boats,
each capable of carrying 50-60 persons. A hut and two or
three sheds on the r. bank.
At the ferry the Baghdad—Samarra T.L. crosses the river.
It apparently leaves the line of the Baghdad—Samarra route
and railway near Tel Husein (about 4 m. SSE. of the ferry)
and traverses the Dujeil Canal (see m. 81^) and several of its
branches, running NNW. to river, after crossing which
it turns NW. to Samarra. 3 m, S, of the ferry, and for
some distance from this point on the way to Samarra, the
Baghdad—Samarra road and railway pass over a network
of canals, mostly dry.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser Zāb, the country east of the Tigris towards the Persian frontier, and the routes running westward from the Euphrates valley across the Syrian Desert. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume. This volume was supplemented with corrections and additions in June 1918 (see IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5).
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of 'Contents' which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (The Tigris and the Lesser Zāb, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (The Tigris Valley with Region to East, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, The Syrian Desert);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendix;
- Index;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes', which includes 'City Map of Baghdad' (f. 212) and 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes, Volume III' contained in a pocket.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (214 folios)
- Arrangement
This volume is arranged according to numbered routes. There is a page of contents and an alphabetical index. There are two maps housed in a pocket.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:422, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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